18 U.S.C. § 1421
Accounts of court officers
Whoever, being a clerk or assistant clerk of a court, or other person charged by law with a duty to render true accounts of moneys received in any proceeding relating to citizenship, naturalization, or registration of aliens or to pay over any balance of such moneys due to the United States, willfully neglects to do so within thirty days after said payment shall become due and demand therefor has been made, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1954–1954 · leading case: United States v. Doyle
United States v. Doyle (1954)
“Under a view that Congress, where otherwise silent, must have intended the edifice of criminal legislation to be as homogeneous as possible, I advert to 18 USC § 1421 , which provides a penalty of five years imprisonment for a person who “willfully neglects” “a duty to render…”
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